I would recommend to prefer Grub2 (it is certainly possible to install its installer without pain in Arch and uninstall that installer after use , after grub2 itself is really installed on the HD - ArchPup would be one of the first, perhaps the first Puppy using Grub2 !) as Grub2 really can more and is more compatible with the future development of free Linux! Grub ist GNU (sorry, we have not enough GNU at Puppy, no free kernel, no Icecat! Only by me! I am using Icecat with Archpup ! I did see that in the past in in the puplet Insidious Pup! It was the Debian version of Icecat, Iceweasel. But just at this time I am always searching a way to shrink Icedtea and Gnash to make them really usable in Puppy or other small Linux, and make them really free Linux without any not free code!).

A good tutorial would need to describe
- the way to install the grub2 installer (on my PC, grub2 were preinstalled from Nutyx, the LFS-derivate automatic build!)
- the way to install grub with the grub installer
- the way to uninstall the installer after use (easy: restart without save file and without remastering ; forget it !)
- how to install a grub screen background to make ArchPup more beautiful than usual Puplets
- the info that Grub2 includes differently from Grub legacy a commando line interpreter and can also start without correct start script if some one knows how to do it
- the minimal startscript, it is /boot/grub/grub.cfg in the right partition where grub is actually really installed (as the most bad distributions, ubuntu included or better ubuntu as first, erase like wild bandits that, what precedent installations did install ) needed to start ArchPup.

I did never start ArchPup from CD but always as usual in Puppy if using Grub2:

Quote:

# Begin grub.cfg
# By default boot the first menu entry.
set default 0
set grub_gfx=auto
# Allow 5 seconds before booting the default.
set timeout 5
set color_highlight=blue/white
set color_normal=cyan/black
set gfxpayload=1024x768x16

sda1 = swap
sda2 = extended, and within sda5 ext4 (as ext4 chkdsk ist really a lot more fast if needed and ext4 is as compact as ext3. But you can't use very old Puppys, they are not compatible with ext4!)
sda5 = absolutely all my stuff !

so I am free to make more partitions (primaries as well as a lot of logical ones) on the fly if I need it (shrinking the back part of sda5/sda2! this need one of both CD start or start from out a little primary partition like a sda3 with label "boot" with a little puppy in it, as the nothing as to be mounted in the extended sda2 to shrink it!), but I don't need that any more...

actually, all is Puppy (or Windows 95, yes Windows 95, starting in qemu out sda5) eventually with wine (but rarely now as windows 95 can do a lot and is fast in Puppy with modern generation's processors. about as fast like native Windows 95 at the time of 8086 until i486 )!

I wanted the users to have a visual of 'some' of Archpup's capabilities:

Very nice
Any sense how much faster/smaller/resource-frugal they are overall in ArchPup versus Arch linux?_________________Kids all over the world go around with an XO laptop. They deserve one puppy (or many) too

I wanted to ask you too....that 2.6.35 kernel u're using...could i just pull it out of XOpup..and slam it into archpup and it works? or is it tweaked specifically for the targeted device?

No. Is only for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops.
The latest official OLPC fedora version runs 3.3 but I find 2.6.35 way more mature for the hardware. Could not see any issues in userspace running the latest versions of Fedora, Ubuntu etc, either.
Makes you wander all this race for the latest..._________________Kids all over the world go around with an XO laptop. They deserve one puppy (or many) too

I did adapt it as I work without any save file (I need a few quantity of links in /root for that)

I did show what is in it

I did prepare my /mnt/home/archpup/install directory

and rebuild the archpup-12.12.sfs (important: not archpup.sfs, not archpup-1212.sfs, not archpup-12.12-1 but archpup-12.12.sfs, why, I don't know...), my *.SFS is a little smaller,

and use it...

and return immediately after the first hour to the precedent version...

why?

I miss the "freshness" being in the 3thd precedent versions...

to much script working at your side

to much preparation's work at my side:

the distro become more complex, works probably better with special hardware but include the about same AND NEW formalism (that I did eliminate for me )...

I disconnect me from the new version and continue to use the version from before (as I did made a certain long way already with it). I don't will change.

my prognostic is: ArchPup will become bigger and bigger to simulate a complex complete Linux, a complete menu index.
as I did say, the freshness and transparency become away. the user has more to do as with a complete Puppy...

I am sorry, it is my opinion!

I daily use

- browser
- picture manipulation
- picture viewing from photo camera
- HTML editor
- Java / flash to contribute in OpenStreetMaps
- vi or cat > to my.txt << "EOF"
txt txt txt
EOF
- i find complete Nano and complete Geany (binded in the system functions, so I have to replace it with Beaver or Leafpad to don't to loose that functions. But I am not a system programmer any more... I understand that he can wish it to make it's job, although Christophe, the creator of Slitaz, did explain to have done all in nano, you can read that yourself in the doc of Slitaz 1, it is yet online... For a system programmer it is a easy thing to add Geany. For the average user, it is a crux to erase geany to save memory / file size without to loose functions...)
- PDF viewer
- scanner
- word processing and printer
- qemu
- sometimes wine as it is often more easy to bind a in /usr/bin not present application in wine than to install it in Linux because of dependences ... k-meleon starts immediately, no graphic library missing! starts...

an important part of that is slow to change after start in ArchPup and the help founded in the new iso are of cosmetic kind

the question is what we want!

- a conventional Puppy
- a smart and small Puppy
- a Puppy using obligatory a save file to work fast and comfortable
- a new Puppy needing no save file at all and starting fast and starting without tragic the SFS-file(s) on them it is based to have all needed figures really necessary for daily use!
- a new Puppy using already existing extensions as SFS
- or a new Puppy having a new among of adequate SFS's for it himself to view all things, to scan all things, to print out or show all things (it can be the future, but we don't have already that)

add Arch applications is a solution but archpup grows and grows more than other puppy because nobody did optimize in the background the packages before you add it and Arch do the same as Slitaz (initially only about 30 Mb since more than 5 years!): it installs all needed stuffs, or, certainly, more than usually included in Puppy packages, so that you can easily install more thant 2 Gb in Slitaz and probably more in Arch...

the pet2sfs from ArchPup is a good solutions, as the Puppy packages are often pre stripped, only that dependencies are often missed.

short conclusion:
it needs to much engagement from me by using it and to much time to operate with it.

the screen is tearing on videos? using intel video card? If that's the case it's always been that way for me as well on every linux i tried....except the last Arch Linux i was using. I was pretty suprised that there was something in it, that stopped it.

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